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Our book club reads a wide range of titles, frequently about nature. We meet in the Sterling Morton Library, which contains 28,000 books, 12,000 artworks and several hundred nursery catalogs. "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau brought on one of our best book discussions. The leader encouraged each group member to describe his or her reaction to this book, and while the first couple of people were enthusiastically delighted with Thoreau's work, the next person did not like the book one bit. John Muir was voted the author that our members would most like to meet. Other authors who had a strong showing in the vote were Timothy Egan, William Bartram, Barbara Kingsolver and Bill...

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Our book club reads a wide range of titles, frequently about nature.
We meet in the Sterling Morton Library, which contains 28,000 books, 12,000 artworks and several hundred nursery catalogs.
"Walden" by Henry David...

I've often fantasized about retracing the steps of such naturalists as Charles Darwin, Alexander von Humboldt and William Bartram, who saw exotic places and recorded, in detail, the plants and animals they described so vividly on their expeditions.
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